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Protesters, thousands of them expressed anger over California’s decision to ban gay marriage. Some of Hollywood’s big stars came to protest the banning too. Proposition 8 as it was technically called, left many dismayed such names as Rosie O’Donnell, Lance Bass and Wanda Sykes. They went out to protest on the gay marriage ban last Wednesday. Some stars expressed their anger and discontentment online like Madonna, Ellen Degeneres, Melissa Etheridge and Rose McGowan.Patricia Clarkson, James Cromwell, Sean Penn and Angelica Huston also supported the more than 2000 protesters outside a Mormon temple. Other stars, anrigly lamented that they were not going to pay their taxes because they were not treated as a citizen of California.

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Britney Spears’ “driving without a license” case ended without the jury’s verdict for the second day. The jurors left the court after being deadlocked. That brings to three, the number of times they voted since Friday. The jurors had failed to reach a unanimous decision. It all came out with 10 to 2 unspecified which way. After lunch, the jury looked gloomy and was telling the judge that they were quite pessimistic if they will still be able to reach an agreement. The judge, James Steele gave them more time to deliberate and take a fourth vote. During the course of the trial, there was no attempt to mention the accident that eventually led to her charges.

You may have seen him in films like Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid,with Robert Redford, Cool Hand Luke, The Color Of Money & most recently, the 2002 film Road To Perdition with Tom Hanks.
You may have also heard him bringing to life the character of Doc Hudson from the Disney-Pixar movie Cars. He was Paul Newman (1925-2008), one or our most beloved iconic screen stars. Just this week, he died at home due to complications arising from cancer. He was one of the most respected and admired celebrity, not only for his sterling performances and rugged good looks, but also because of the strong moral and civic responsibility he epitomized in the giddy world of Hollywood.

He and actress Joanne Woodward, is hailed as one of the most stellar examples of marriage, having achieved 50 years together, in a world where marriage is often transitory and fleeting. He was also a genuine philanthropist, founding Newman’s Own, a line of food products that donates all proceeds of the sale to charity. He will be sadly missed.

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The eighth season’s first affair follow a “Who’s the father?” set-up, with the father exposed to be Ross in episode two and Rachel revealing him in episode three. Joey starts to expand romantic feelings for roommate Rachel and when Joey’s feelings are exposed things become awkward for the two. Eventually their companionship returns to its status quo but in the ending, following Rachel’s giving birth to a daughter,who she and Ross call Emma, she accepts an accidental proposal of marriage from Joey when he bends down to get back a ring which has fallen from Ross’ jacket.. The season was regarded as a return to form for the series; its ratings increased as viewers tuned in for comfort following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. It won the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2002, the first in that category for the series.

A court ruling has found controversial and hit Pop Sensation Britney Spears incapable of taking care of herself and her finances, and has granted temporary custodianship to her father until February 4. Jamie and Lynn, father and mother of Britney respectively, could not hide their joy with the court’s ruling.

“The Insider” got hold of court papers which showed that Pamela Anderson’s lawyers filed papers on December 28 which reveal that Rick Solomon was served with divorce papers on December 15. It was reported that Anderson filed for divorce on December 17, though, the current status of the estranged couple’s relationship still remains uncertain.

The star of Hanna Montana hasn’t even recovered from the scandalous shoot of Vanity Fair when unofficial photos of her less than clad body started to resurface around the net. We hear it might have been taken from her private photo collection in My Space. Our advice? Change your password Miley, someone’s been circulating your private photos without your permission and unless you want to have to be exposed with another scandal, (as if the suit of plagiarism wasn’t enough) you better start stepping on the brakes on the publicity stints. Didnt Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears ever warn you that too much media exposure is the fastest lane to being a “had been?”

American Idol finalist David Archuleta may have been the juror’s favorite but he has no superstar complex whatsoever. The finalist who was beaten by David Cook by 12 million votes finally commented on the issue of having a stage dad. Archuleta was said to have been denied a glass of water by said stage dad in which he commented that the rumor, “was plain ridiculous”. Archuleta quotes: “If I wanted a glass of water, I’m sure I can get it myself, I am seventeen after all.”The young singing prodigy confesses to feeling “weird” with the stream of gossips floating around about him. He said that he was not accustomed to all the attention after choosing to be secluded from hearing public pulses while he was still in the competition.

High school musical superstar Vanessa Hudgens seems to have her career path on place. The singer-actress has just made an album called Identified to be released early this July and we hear it has got some dirt on lover boy Zack Efron. One of the songs for the album is titled Bad Habit which is about having a boyfriend who is basically, insensitive. So could this be a testament to the rocky Hudgens-Efron relationship? Hudgens vehemently denies this and instead assures us that the inspiration from the song was taken on her friends’ account, well were not too sure about that Vanessa, not after your boyfriend there was caught lip-locking with another guy.

The most popular couple in the world is planning to be one of the many power house celebrities to call France their home. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt was said to have invested a whopping 60 million dollars for a mansion at the south of France. The eye dropping 1000 acre land is going to host the couple’s two and upcoming twins, that makes it four. It’s a pretty big family already but we’re sure rooms won’t be a problem as the mansion was said to have 37 rooms all in all sporting a lake not to mention a mini forest. The place was so big Brangelina had to start scouting for furniture as early as now to make sure all will be fine when they finally move in their palace-like abode. Oh, and the name of the place is Chateau Miraval by the way.